"China To Spend $1.8 Billion On Green Car Subsidies By 2012"
"China will spend at least $1.76 billion to subsidize smaller, fuel efficient cars by 2012."
Source: NYTimes, 06/04/2010
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"Power Companies Lie Back as Push Begins for Senate Bill"
Initial enthusiasm from electric utilities for the Kerry-Lieberman Senate climate bill has given way to lobbying silence -- which worries environmentalists hoping a last-ditch effort to pass it this year might succeed.
Source: Greenwire, 06/04/2010
"Atomic Waste Gets 'Temporary' Home"
"Three months after the U.S. cancelled a plan to build a vast nuclear-waste repository in Nevada, the country's ad hoc atomic-storage policy is becoming clear in places like Wiscasset, Maine."
Source: Wall St. Journal, 06/03/2010
Fed Appeals Court Dismisses Katrina Greenhouse Gases Suit
Some 30 energy companies are off the hook for now. "So many members of the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals have recused themselves from a rehearing of a lawsuit that charges energy companies with contributing to the effects of Hurricane Katrina by emitting greenhouse gases that the court cannot conduct the rehearing."
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune, 06/02/2010
"Environmentalists' Nemesis Richard Pombo Returns To Politics"
California Republican Richard Pombo, who was ousted by voters in 2007 from the Congressional seat from which he championed extraction over environment, is trying to return. A tight four-way primary this week will be key.
Source: San Jose Mercury News, 06/02/2010
"U.S. Opens Criminal Inquiry Into Oil Spill"
"The Obama administration said Tuesday that it had begun civil and criminal investigations into the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, as the deepening crisis threatened to define President Obama’s second year in office."
Source: NYTimes, 06/02/2010
"Make Love Not Gas"
The BP Gulf oil spill is inspiring re-evaluation of how to prevent low-probability but highly catastrophic environmental risks. In Oregon, the terminals and pipelines proposed for handling imported liquified natural gas are getting a very hard look.
Source: Eugene Weekly, 06/01/2010
Enviros Challenge 49 Gulf Drilling Exemptions in Court
"The Center for Biological Diversity Thursday filed a lawsuit against Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and the Minerals Management Service to strike down the agency's exemption of 49 Gulf of Mexico drilling projects from all environmental review."
Source: ENS, 06/01/2010
"White House Struggles as Criticism on Leak Mounts"
"The Obama administration scrambled to respond on Sunday after the failure of the latest effort to kill the gushing oil well in the Gulf of Mexico. But administration officials acknowledged the possibility that tens of thousands of gallons of oil might continue pouring out until August, when two relief wells are scheduled to be completed."
Source: NYTimes, 06/01/2010
Obama Says Feds Are in Charge, Clamps Lid on Drilling
"President Barack Obama Thursday rejected charges he was slow to respond to the Gulf of Mexico "tragedy" and clamped down on the oil industry, as he tried to contain political blowback from the crisis."
Source: AFP, 05/28/2010
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